Put on your guessing cap because Bethesda Softworks has something new it wants to show off.
The developer responsible for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3 is teasing its next game on Vine. The Twitter video app enables users to post video clips of up to six seconds in length. Bethesda posted a short clip of barbed wire followed by records spinning on a turntable.
Bethesda senior producer Jason Bergman retweeted the Vine with the message: “Consider yourself teased.”
The records featured in the clip include “Planned program service. Program no. 416” by the Moonbeam Trio and “Air on the G-string,” an arrangement based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major. Bach composed that piece in the 18th century. The Moonbeam Trio album is apparently rare, but the U.S. Library of Congress has a copy. It includes songs like “I cannot sing the old songs,” which was originally composed in 1868.
Check out the Vine for yourself and hazard your guess in the comments:
Despite the allusions to old-timey music, the clip is not teasing a new Fallout game. The Fallout series is known for its use of classic tunes to set up its atmosphere, but Bethesda producer Pete Hines confirmed the Vine is not Fallout related.
@aegies You talking about the Vine thing? Guess again :-)
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) April 16, 2013
We’ve reached out to Bethesda to ask them to explain their madness. We’ll update with any new information.
Yesterday, Bethesda announced that it is done with development on Skyrim. It will still support the title, but it is moving the bulk of its workforce to its next project.